Word: brashly
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Like a dazed boxer who has been KO'd, the old-line Disney artists were slow to rise from their canvases. They kept making serioso dramas with soaring Broadwayesque scores, when the CG films were mopping up with brash, no-song comedies that appealed to young males as well as the family audience. New ideas were stifled. "It's kind of an irony," says Oscar-winning animator Eric Armstrong (The ChubbChubbs!), "because Walt was well known for being an innovative guy. A lot of people thought it was funny that Disney didn't want to try the same experimentation...
...increased costs that are inevitable if Treaty claims are to be settled by 2010 without reneging on its tax cuts or blowing the Budget. Cullen believes Labour is well on track, with its "little bit of stick, a lot of carrot" approach moving people off unemployment and sickness benefits. Brash says that's not enough. At a time when businesses are finding it hard to fill job vacancies, 15% of the working-age population are being paid not to work, he says. It's costing $NZ14 million a day. National wants tougher work tests for the unemployed, tighter controls...
...there is a model for aspiration and self-reliance that would get two ticks from Brash it would undoubtedly be 44-year-old John Key, M.P. and National Finance spokesman. The millionaire Key, a former financial markets wizard, grew up in public housing in Christchurch, went to university, found a place as a money trader and made a pile as he jumped from job to job and city to city. He returned to New Zealand to take a shot at winning the seat of Helensville, west of Auckland, in 2002. Behind the wheel of a musty camper van emblazoned with...
...incremental. Cutting spending on services is very difficult - and politically hazardous. "Government is like running an aircraft carrier," he tells Time. "You can only change direction very gently - otherwise the planes fall off the deck." Voters have only a few days left to decide whether Helen Clark or Don Brash should be trusted as captain...
...Brash sees potential partners on the center-right, most naturally the Tory-style Act, led by the wisecracking Rodney Hide. But Act's nine list seats could be wiped out on present polling, victims of National's resurgence. To shore up its vote and become the third force in national politics that leader Winston Peters aspires to, New Zealand First is taking a "pox on both your houses" attitude: it will not be in a coalition with either of the major parties. Who can say where the mercurial Peters will take his troops after Sept. 17? A sure thing, however...